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- a local populace may be at risk from a variety of possible events, ranging from security threats such as bombs and biochemical agents to environmental threats such as tsunamis, tornadoes, and forest fires. When such threats are present, it is clearly desirable that the local populace be informed as quickly and efficiently as possible.
- organizations such as companies, schools, churches, etc. often have the need to convey information to employees, students, members, etc. quickly and efficiently. For example, in the event that schools or places of business are closed due to severe weather, it is desirable to be able to notify students, teachers, employees, etc. Other organizations may have other needs to convey news and information of various kinds to their members.
- broadcast media are most often used to convey information about impending threats and events. For example, weather warnings, school closings, etc. are often broadcast by televisions and radio stations, or posted on the world wide web. Some organizations rely on pre-recorded telephone messages that their members may hear by calling a special number. Other organizations rely on “phone trees,” in which one member calls one or more other members, who in turn relay a message to one or more other members, etc. However, all of the foregoing ways of providing information suffer from the drawback of requiring recipients to actively request or seek out the information by listening to the right broadcast at the right time, calling a special number to check a pre-recorded message, check a web site, etc. Phone trees are particularly disadvantageous, because they rely on multiple people to take the correct steps to provide important information to all community members.
- FIG. 1 illustrates certain telecommunications network elements that are used in an exemplary embodiment.
- FIG. 2 depicts a process flow for providing an urgent message to a telecommunications network and for sending the message to users of a network, according to an embodiment.
- FIG. 3 depicts a process flow illustrating the use of an alert flag, according to an embodiment.
- a message such as an urgent message or other notification is sent to one or more users of a network.
- Such embodiments advantageously provide information to users rapidly and efficiently, and without requiring users to themselves take active or proactive steps.
- an authorized individual wishing to send an urgent message or other notification may access a network, such as the public switched telephone network (PSTN), and provide instructions for the broadcast or transmission of the message to multiple users, whereupon the message is transmitted or broadcast.
- PSTN public switched telephone network
- users receive a telephone call in which am urgent message is played when the telephone call is answered.
- an “urgent message” it should be understood that the content of the message or notification may be any such content that may be transmitted or broadcast using the systems and methods disclosed herein.
- Central office 110 is known to those skilled in the art as part of public switched telephone network (PSTN) 105 , and includes switching equipment that connects telephone users to each other, both locally and via long distance carriers.
- PSTN public switched telephone network
- central office 110 may receive calls 115 originating from within or without PSTN 105 , e.g., from a conventional telephone, from a device on a packet-switched network such as the Internet, etc.
- STPs 120 act as an intermediary between central office 110 and service control points (SCPs) 130 for the purpose of establishing and terminating calls.
- SCPs service control points
- STP 120 is a specialized switch that provides access to a Signaling System 7 (SS7) network and provides routing for SS7 messages.
- SSP Service Switching Point
- SSP 140 within central office 110 originates and terminates calls, receives and interprets messages for providing specific services to customers, and communicates with STP 120 .
- SCP 130 is a node in the SS7 network that includes logic for handling requests for service, e.g., a database containing information concerning how requests for service should be handled.
- the operation of SCP 130 as well as the SS7 signaling by which SCP 130 communicates with other network elements, are generally well known.
- SCP 130 receives and responds to requests for information concerning how calls should be handled, e.g., whether a call should be blocked, forwarded to another telephone number, etc.
- SCP 130 stores an alert flag 135 , discussed in further detail below in connection with FIG. 2 , although embodiments are possible in which alert flag 135 is stored elsewhere.
- alert flag 135 is a binary flag used to indicate a status of “alert on” or “alert off,” where “alert on” indicates that a request has been made to send an urgent message to a list of recipients, and “alert off” simply indicates that no such request is pending.
- Packet-switched network 150 is an internet protocol (IP) or other packet switched network known to those skilled in the art. Included within the network 150 is voice response unit/intelligent peripheral (VRU/IP) 160 . VRU/IP 160 is known to those skilled in the art as a component of an intelligent network (IN) that generally includes a processor, a memory, and program instructions for providing one or more services to a user, such as playing an announcement.
- IP internet protocol
- VRU/IP 160 voice response unit/intelligent peripheral
- VRU/IP 160 is known to those skilled in the art as a component of an intelligent network (IN) that generally includes a processor, a memory, and program instructions for providing one or more services to a user, such as playing an announcement.
- VRU/IP 160 generally includes a recipient table 165 , discussed further below in connection with FIG. 2 , although embodiments are possible in which recipient table 165 is stored elsewhere.
- recipient table 165 includes a list of addresses to receive an urgent message.
- table 165 includes a list of telephone numbers to receive an urgent message.
- individual users or sets of users to receive an urgent message are identified by input received from the party providing the urgent message.
- the addresses listed in table 165 are not be telephone numbers, but could be some other kind of addresses, such as Internet Protocol addresses, other network addresses, etc.
- the one or more media gateways and softswitches used by the network 150 to communicate with the PSTN and to switch packet-based messages respectively.
- embodiments are possible, even likely, in which networks and/or network elements different from, or arranged differently than, those shown in FIG. 1 are included.
- embodiments are contemplated that do not include PSTN 105 at all, but make use exclusively of one or more networks such as packet switched network 150 .
- various elements within PSTN 105 and network 150 such as SCP 130 and VRU/IP 160 , include a processor capable of executing instructions such as computer-executable instructions, and one or more media capable of storing data including instructions executable by the processor. Accordingly, it is to be understood that various embodiments, such as those disclosed herein, may be practiced by executing a sequence of computer-executable instructions in one or more elements of PSTN 105 and/or network 150 .
- FIG. 2 depicts a process flow 200 for providing an urgent message to a telecommunications network 100 and for sending the message to users of the network 100 , according to an embodiment.
- a call 115 is directed to a reserved address, for example, a telephone number in central office 110 , although those skilled in the art will recognize kinds of addresses other than telephone numbers, e.g., Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, to which calls 115 may be directed.
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- step 210 SSP 140 , upon receiving the call 115 placed in step 205 , sends a termination attempt trigger (TAT), known to those skilled in the art, to SCP 130 (via STP 120 , as will be recognized by those skilled in the art).
- TAT termination attempt trigger
- step 215 the identity of the person or entity making the incoming call 115 is validated.
- this validation may be performed in conjunction with VRU/IP 160 .
- PIN personal identification number
- SCP 130 may be programmed to recognize that a PIN should be used to validate a caller when a call to a particular telephone number is received. Accordingly, SCP 130 may initiate a connection between VRU/IP 160 and SSP 140 in central office 110 for the purpose of receiving a caller's PIN.
- VRU/IP 160 Upon receiving PIN digits input by the caller from SSP 140 , VRU/IP 160 then transmits the digits to SCP 130 for validation. It is also possible to have a caller speak a password that is validated using known voice recognition technologies. In any event, this validation step, while not present in all embodiments, is desirable for the purpose of ensuring that only legitimate callers may initiate emergency call broadcasts as disclosed and claimed herein.
- step 215 If, in step 215 , the identity of the person or entity that placed the call in step 205 cannot be validated, then the process 200 terminates. Otherwise, control proceeds to step 220 .
- step 220 the person or entity making the call 115 may be requested to confirm that the caller intended to request that an urgent message be sent to multiple recipients.
- This step is optional, but desirable for the purpose of ensuring that urgent messages are not inadvertently or unintentionally sent. Those skilled in the art will understand that this confirmation may be performed in various ways, such as those discussed above regarding step 215 . If the caller does not confirm that an urgent message should be sent, the process 200 terminates. Otherwise, control proceeds to step 225 .
- SCP 130 updates an alert flag 135 stored in SCP 130 to indicate the presence of an urgent message.
- a flag 135 or alert indicator may be stored, for example, in a table, or in any other manner known to those skilled in the art.
- STP 140 at the request of SCP 130 , sends the call 115 received in step 205 to VRU/IP 160 .
- SCP 130 may include logic to associate a particular predefined call identifier (caller ID) with a call. Such logic is used in step 230 so that, when the call 115 is sent to VRU/IP 160 , a caller ID is associated with the call 115 . Accordingly, the call 115 may be validated by VRU/IP 160 as a call 115 that is validly requesting an urgent message.
- VRU/IP 160 determines whether the caller ID associated with the call 115 in step 230 is valid, i.e., whether the caller ID is a caller ID that has been predefined to be associated with a call 115 initiating a urgent message to multiple recipients. If the caller ID is not valid, the process 200 terminates. Otherwise, control proceeds to step 240 .
- VRU/IP 160 consults recipient table 165 containing a list of telephone numbers or other addresses to which the urgent message requested by the call received in step 205 should be sent. If the urgent message has not been to provided to any of the telephone numbers in the recipient table 165 , a call 115 is placed to the first number in the table 165 ; otherwise, a call 115 is placed to the first number in the recipient table 165 to which the message has not been provided.
- VRU/IP 160 may place calls through central office 110 , although embodiments are possible in which VRU/IP 160 places calls directly, e.g. over packet-switched network 150 .
- step 245 the urgent message is played when the call 115 placed in step 240 is answered.
- step 250 VRU/IP 160 determines whether further telephone numbers in the recipient table 165 remain to be notified with the urgent message. If so, control returns to step 240 . If not, control proceeds to step 255 .
- VRU/IP 160 will likely be capable of making multiple calls simulataneously.
- one embodiment employs more than one VRU/IP 160 , and each VRU/IP 160 comprises ninety primary rate interfaces (PRIs) known to those skilled in the art.
- PRIs primary rate interfaces
- each PRI has available twenty-three outbound channels, meaning that a single VRU/IP 160 can simultaneously place two-thousand and seventy outbound calls. Accordingly, in most embodiments steps 240 through 250 will occur simultaneously with respect to a plurality of addresses in recipient table 165 .
- VRU/IP 160 sends a message to SCP 130 to update the alert flag 135 to indicate that alert status is off, i.e., because the urgent message requested by the call 115 received in step 205 has now been sent to all specified users, the alert flag 135 should no longer indicate that an urgent message is to be sent.
- step 260 SCP 130 updates the alert flag 135 to indicate that alert status is off.
- step 260 the process 200 ends.
- FIG. 3 depicts a process flow 300 illustrating the use of alert flag 135 , according to an embodiment. It should be understood that the purpose of the alert flag 135 is to ensure that, when an urgent message is to be sent, or is being sent, that appropriate processing occurs to ensure minimal interference with the sending of the urgent message.
- a call 115 is received in central office 110 and forwarded to SCP 130 for handling by SSP 140 .
- step 310 SCP 130 determines whether the call 115 received in step 305 is a call to a number reserved for requesting urgent messages. If so, the process 300 terminates and, in most embodiments, the process 200 is initiated. Otherwise, control proceeds to step 315 .
- step 315 SCP 130 checks alert flag 135 . If the flag 135 indicates “alert on” status, control proceeds to step 320 . Otherwise, alert flag 135 indicated “alert off” status, and control proceeds to step 325 .
- step 320 SCP 130 sends the call 115 back to SSP 140 with instructions to play a message informing the caller that an emergency situation exists and that the caller should terminate the call (e.g., hang up) to conserve network resources.
- the message played to the caller is as brief as possible.
- step 325 the call 115 is processed according to normal procedures, i.e., procedures followed when alert flag 135 is set to “alert off” status.
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